New Data Reignites Concerns over COVID-19 and Nursing Homes in New York State
Concerns over New York State’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic have recently re-emerged in light of a new report and court ruling related to the matter.
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Questions continue over whether more might have been done to protect patients in nursing homes and other congregate settings in New York State.
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and many states enacted liability limitations for health care practioners and facilities.
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By Wendy Parmet The heartfelt letter issued by Kaci Hickox, the nurse being held in quarantine in a New Jersey hospital, calls into question the surprising decision by Governors Christie and Cuomo to quarantine health care workers returning from West Africa. It also shines a spotlight on the all-important, but largely unexplored, question of how…
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By David Orentlicher[Cross-posted at Health Law Profs and PrawfsBlawg.] In the wake of Craig Spencer’s decision to go bowling in Brooklyn, governors of three major states—Illinois, New Jersey, and New York—have imposed new Ebola quarantine rules that are inconsistent with national public health policy, are not likely to protect Americans from Ebola, and may compromise the response to Ebola in…